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Gamble v. United States, No. 17-646, 587 U.S. 678 (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case about the separate sovereignty exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which allows both federal and state prosecution of the same crime as the governments are "separate sovereigns".
If a case is originally filed in a state court, and the requirements for federal jurisdiction are met (diversity and amount in controversy, the case involves a federal question, or a supplemental jurisdiction exists), the defendant (and only the defendant) may remove the case to a federal court. A case cannot be removed to a state court.
Admission to the bar in the United States is the granting of permission by a particular court system to a lawyer to practice law in the jurisdiction. Each U.S. state and jurisdiction (e.g. territories under federal control) has its own court system and sets its own rules and standards for bar admission.
At common law, an attorney not licensed to practice in a particular jurisdiction may be permitted to appear pro hac vice. In the legal field in the United States, pro hac vice (English: / p r oʊ h æ k ˈ v iː tʃ eɪ /) [1] is a practice in common law jurisdictions whereby a lawyer who has not been admitted to practice in a certain jurisdiction is allowed to participate in a particular case ...
Prior to World War II, Fraenkel served as a criminal defense lawyer for Jews who were targeted by the Nazi regime. [2] After the war, he authored the book The Dual State on the political structure of the Nazi regime and subsequently became one of the founding fathers of German political science. [3]
Therefore, an attorney that is barred in state A and seeking admission on motion in state B will not be granted admission if state A does not grant admission on motion to attorneys in state B. States that allow admission on motion based on semi-pure reciprocity, allow attorneys to be admitted on motion based on similar rules of the jurisdiction ...
Jordan summoned for Mark Pomerantz, a former senior attorney in Bragg’s office, to testify on Capitol Hill following public statements he made pressuring his old boss to prosecute Trump.
Nicole Gina Berner (born 1965) [1] is an American-Israeli lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.She served as general counsel for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) from 2017 to 2024 and a partner at the law firm of James & Hoffman.